You can now tell Amazon's Alexa assistant what to learn

Alexa is learning. Alongside a redesign of its ‘skills’ section in the Alexa app, Amazon is letting users tell Alexa what they want her to learn. In the Alexa app, the skills section now has categories like ‘lifestyle’ or ‘smart home’ to choose from. In those categories are skills (read: a list of commands that access information or cause Alexa to spring into action) from third-party developers.